Holberton School https://www.holbertonschool.com/

A project-based alternative to college for the next generation of software engineers.

“For once in my life, I really like going to school”

-Chandler Mayo, student at Holberton School

“Hogwarts for programmers opens with stellar staffers”

-The Inquirer "Holberton School offers a truly innovative approach to education: focus on building reliable applications and scalable systems, take on real-

world challenges, collaborate with your peers. A school every software engineer would have dreamt of!"

- Kate Volkova, Sr. Software Engineer at Microsoft

Fortune linux.com

ZDnet CNBC

TechCrunch

Education is failing “Most existing education systems at all levels provide highly siloed training and

continue a number of 20th century practices that are hindering progress on today’s talent and labour market issues.” -2016 World Economic Forum, Executive summary

Welcome to the 4th industrial revolution “Historically people had plenty of time to retrain and retool to take on new

opportunities. Today, not the case. The world has never seen inovation moving at this rate and it is outstriping out ability to train the workforce for the jobs that are and will

be, and not just the jobs that once were.” -Jeff Weiner, LinkedIn CEO

problem “There’s going to be

1.4M Tech jobs in next decade & only

400K trained people to fill them.”

-Megan Smith, US CTO

Teaching problem solving and how to learn.

instead of teaching tools.

No teacher, no classroom - instead, students learn how to learn by themselves and with the support of mentors from the industry.

Physical school. Two years program, using project-based & peer learning.

Covering soft skills such a public speaking, technical writing, project management, marketing...

Open to everyone: section based on talent and motivation.

At Holberton School Students learn whatever they need to accomplish an objective.

They find solutions to problems using offline and online resources, imagination, creativity and communication.

By doing so, they will be able to adapt faster to unknown. challenges they will face in their career.

3 Pillars Software Driven

•Automated admission process.

•Automated review system

•Very granular rating system.

•Open degrees with skills, shared in the blockchain.

Community Driven •Organic scaling (peer reviews/learning, mentorship).

•Students are part of the Tech world before they graduate.

•Mentors from the industry advice us and build the curriculum with us.

•Learn to learn.

•No teachers, no lectures.

•Project based.

The team Founders

Julien Barbier formerly: Head of Growth & Community at Docker Sylvain Kalache formerly: Sr. Site Reliability Engineer at LinkedIn

Dan Scholnick, General Partner at Trinity Ventures jerry Yang, Co-founder and former CEO of Yahoo! & Founding Partner at AME Cloud

Ventures Nick Adams, Managing Director at AME

Nicolas El Baze, General Partner at Partech Ventures and 150+ mentors

Google, Apple, Facebook, LinkedIn, Uber, Salesforce, Dropbox, Pinterest

Our methodology is used by others San Francisco Holberton School

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